Which latency do you mean ?
1) converter latency at the device for AD/DA conversion
2) latency by the driver between device and pc ?
to 1) this is only applicable for the Digiface, as the RayDAT is a pure digital card without ADDA section
to 2) RayDAT is directly connected to PCIe which is an advantage, Multiface had a PCI card connected (like a firewire card) but ran its own protocol over it.
When using a pure digital card like the RayDAT then you need to add the time for A/D and D/A conversion of the device which you connect via ADAT. RME documents this in their handbook in the section "Latency and Monitoring". The Latencies differ with sample frequency. The values below are all at 44.1 kHz.
Right beside the calculation the according screenshot from the manual, in one case for the UFX, in the other case for UFX and UFX+.
I used an UFX in front of a RayDAT: https://www.tonstudio-forum.de/blog/ind … ME-RayDAT/
This is how you calculate the total latency for such a setup:
See here an overview how different RME solutions, that I use compete against each other
in terms of reported RTT latency as reported by the driver to DAW:
As you can see, the UFX+ with latest converters and new MADIface driver has an even slightly lower latency compared to the combination of RayDAT and UFX.
To answer your question which of the two is better in terms of the i.e. "total latency", like shown in the calculations above, one would need to know which Preamp and/or AD/DA converter you plan to connect to the RayDAT. And then its should be a RME device, because other vendors do not communicate so open the technical data as RME does in their handbooks.
And you need of course a running Multiface solution to be able to read the RTT reported by the driver.
So .. not so easy to answer and it depends, what you connect behind the RayDAT via ADAT.
The RayDAT is definitively a very nice and reliable card.
But you could also take an UFX II or UFX+ if USB based should be your preference.
BR Ramses - UFX III, 12Mic, XTC, ADI-2 Pro FS R BE, RayDAT, X10SRi-F, E5-1680v4, Win10Pro22H2, Cub14